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Posted on 09/14/2009 4:37:18 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The arguments aren't new. They echo from the '60s when some people wondered aloud whether the money being spent to visit the moon wouldn't be better spent on the nation's crumbling cities, or to help other dire problems of the day.
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Pay for it yourself. I don’t drink Tang.
Third World nations can’t afford space programs. When unemployment tops 20 percent, and the second wave of economic destruction gets through with us, space is going to take a budgetary hit.
But, we can still dream. Let’s go to Mars.
we need to explore and expand. Marxists can absorb all wealth ever created and still have poor people, crumbling cities and infrastructure.
Mankind has improved the lives of everyone as we have created technology, faced challenges, taken changes, explored the unknown. We need to figure out how to move into space.
The 2010 space elevator games are about to take place.
Spend the money on crumbling cities, and 35 years later we still have crumbling cities and a moribund space program.
We ought to have had a twenty-five year old space colony on the moon by now, instead we’re thinking about maybe trying to get back there sometime in the next couple of decades.
When they landed on the moon I did not doubt that by the time I was as old as I am now we’d be on Mars. What a disappointment. It took ten years from the time NASA was established until we were standing on the moon. Forty years after the moon landing we’re stuck in low earth orbit.
The next century belongs to the country that masters space travel. Our grandkids will work for their grandkids. If its us, great. If its not us, what a shame.
Some 60 years from the Wright brothers first flight to a landing on the moon. 40 years later lots of robotic missions and low earth manned flight.
I was in favor of cutting funding when the Apollo missions showed there were no Moon Maidens on the Moon. And when the Mars Landers showed not one green-skinned alien girl, much less a planet full of them, I gave up all hope, and further space exploration in my life time was pretty much a waist of tax payer’s dollars.
FYI “Tang” wasn’t invented by NASA and flew on only one mission if I recall.
However massive amounts of spinoff technology WAS invented by NASA and helps keep our nation competetive, some of it is in your home right now. It even saves lives.
Now this is critical, so consider it carefully...
The nations that lead on the frontiers... dictate the course of human history.
let that sink and and ask if you want the free world dictating that history or not?
America was built on a pioneer culture, turn away from that, America will indeed fall away.
Only the very short sighted are against space exploration.
Sadly some are a few Freepers. Always surrpises me.
That pioneer spirit is so important to our nation.
Free markets cannot always pioneer into the unknown. The profit is a different kind.
Thankfully the majority of Americans supports space exploration, and that number keeps growing.
Let's see...should we spend our money on keeping street bums awash in malt liquor, clean needles and crack pipes or is our money better spent exporing the heavens and developing new technologies in the process which will create new industries and lots of jobs.
I'll have to think long and hard on that and get back to you all.
NASA was funded at great expense to compete with the Soviet Empire. Clearly, there were beneficial spin-offs. There was a perceived danger from abroad.
So, OK lets fund the next 73’rd gen bomber and 54’th gen nuke sub to keep the industries going. And while we’re at it, let’s piss off the Russians so that there’s another clear threat (remember Kososvo).
Clearly, there must be foreign capital destruction for this game to do on. Let’s put nukes in Poland to keep them safe from Iran. That should work.
If the first then you have benefited, if the second then you are likely not to have used anything made before 1900.
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